Leaderboard

This is the piece of birdseye maple I'm going to use for the neck. For reference, I've put both neck templates in the neck pocket to show the difference in length.

The black limba is amazing, not sure where Phil sources his timbers but he struck gold with that! Today he’s routed and fitted the truss rod and carbon rods into the neck:

Can you imagine if The Police had their van nicked? *Ring Ring* Hello, police. Hi there, this is Gordon from the police. Our van's been nicked. Jeeze, a police van? Boy you're in trouble. No... well, yes, I suppose you could say its a police van... it's certainly the police van. What? Look, I'm in the police. OK. And our van's been nicked. Right. Well can you like, find it? You're in the police. Yes. Find your own ****ing van before your Sgt finds out. No... I'm not in the police! You said you were! Well in one way I am. I'm recording this, you know. Oh, that's ironic. What? Etc...

“Crikey, that Bongo is ugly!” ”Hold my beer,”

“What do you play?” ”Lead guitar.” ”It’s pronounced LEED.” ”No it’s not. Hold out your hand.”

You'll never take me alive, copper. 😁

I always found the band´s name boring. But I really learned to play the bass by listening to Sting´s bass lines on Regatte De Blanc in 1980, when I had to switch from guitar to bass to be able to join the school´s band. They already had three guitars. 🙂 His bass lines are so good, I immeditaley understood the concept of bass in pop music.

I'm not that happy with all this impersonating myself and the lads. Some of you are going dahn, you slags

I know that feeling 🤓

I’ll just leave this here...

ALL music is derivative, in some way or another. Its just a matter of degree.

Fantastic pictures, tho if I tried that these days I'd definitely be as stuck as Nigel Tufnell... 😕😀

There was me expecting this to be about Fender necks.

Pretty sure I remember reading that Coldplay stole their name from another band anyway. Then they stole their entire repertoire from Unforgettable Fire-era U2, apparently filtered through weak tea and insipid pink blancmange.

As a lot of you I try to do most of the set up and repair work myself on a bass ,especially set up as to an extent its quiet personal to your playing style(bar neck relief, levelling ) I use roto rounds strings and they scratch the hell out of frets. I've tried the different grit fret rubbers that you can get which are ok but take a lot of time and work........but one of these fits the bill perfect https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-nail-buffer-4-in-1/p/0348223....ideal for getting scratches out and buffing back to looking new without taking Much meat off of the frets, £1.20 as well 🙂

Sand it smooth, nothing to lose. It won't hurt the bass and if its the only thing wrong with it. It won't make anything worse that's for sure

I see a Netflix Original series in this:- 'Ring Sting - The Pain That Won't Go Away' 🙂

Concrete... gives it heft.

Can you honestly say that you voluntarily pay more tax than you have to because you think it’s morally right to pay more? I seriously doubt you’d find a single basschat member who feels duty bound to pay more tax than they have to. And as for destroying high streets, that blame lies on many doorsteps. Local council’s mis management of high streets, business rates and parking, old fashioned business models, shops with nothing to offer to make up for the extra prices and ultimately the choice of the consumers who choose where to spend their hard earned and minimum tax paid earnings. Amazon don’t force people to buy from them, they simply offer a better product and consumers vote with their debit cards.

That top cutout...”where’s me washboard? Eh?”

Andy, kindly reassure us that no live pigeon was harmed in the course of this process 😮

It’s too broken that. I’ll give you your £80 back and I’ll sort it 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

This is the one loved enough to have a go at

Who knows the ways of magicians and wizards.

I apologise if I misunderstood the tone of your questions. It sounded to me as if you were saying "all you need is in your amp, onboard preamps are ridiculous and so are their users" reading between the lines. Hence my tone. But it's very possible I misunderstood too. Somehow, in person, we can disagree very strongly and pull each other's leg and keep smiling, but in writing it all can look so damn serious. Especially if the reader has been having a bad day. I've been pretty sick the past few days and had to do a quick run to hospital [1] last night... and I'm a terrible patient, I get really grumpy when I'm ill. So, yes... I'm not going to re-read it all, if you say you didn't mean it the way I took it, I believe you, please accept my apology, and let's keep it cheery edit: [1] by the way it's all good, just a scary false alarm. I just need to be a patient patient, and I'm still grumpy, but not about onboard preamps

Awesome one at a venue that’s new to us. 280 capacity, and a nice big stage. The singer and my eyes lit up at the tall drum riser, as we often like to have an ‘jump off’ competition during our set. First outing with the Mustang, which was flawless, although I did notice the strap buttons were about 1/3rd unscrewed from the body by the end of the set, I’ll be supergluing them in tonight. That face...

Turn up with a banjo and a sliver of buckwheat between your teeth...

Also, it will put my mind at ease when using other cabs as we often do at backline share gigs, I know my own cabs can take what we do but sometimes I've had to drastically wind back on the bass when using other cabs. Be prepared to wait a few weeks if you do order, you won't hear anything after you order, your PayPal receipt will come through and unless you email Max you'll hear nothing till he ships, everything is built on order.

It's a trap!!!

Nathan East showing off his new bass

I’ve played with drummers using click track. My experiences have been mixed, in that those who have practiced/gigged extensively with them have no problem keeping time and retain feel/dynamic (unsurprisingly). However a couple of (good) drummers decided they were going to use them without extensive practice were awful. So I guess be prepared for some “lead up time” and of course a willingness on their part to use a click. It can, for some drummers, be counter intuitive to have a click in their ears, acting like a critical parent 😂😱. I had one say that it took their freedom to be “expressive” away, a bit like peeps saying that theory “kills creativity” 🙄 what he meant to say was “it shows up my tendency to slow down when I get bored/get distracted/tired/remember I forgot to put the bins out/etc.

New head, now with a new volume and distortion pot. I love the slightly squat look of it. I still have the Mark IV but I need to list that for sale at some point.

Oasis?

Sofa shot just landed.. Looking forward to getting my hands on this

That's probably not true. That clarity will enable people to hear your bass lines through the racket made by those loud guitars and shed-building drummers. Of course you'll need the right amount of volume, but you will require less volume to cut through if your sound is clear and well defined.

This is all great, and then you play without your pa and have to rely on a house pa incapable of projecting sound below 1KHz run by Norman whose been doing this job 60 years man and boy and is subsequently as deaf as a post, and his culpable assistant keV who can't quite work out how to tie his shoe laces or keep his trousers from descending beneath his derrière. At which point you need a big bastard bass rig in order for the band to actually hear you, since Norman is convinced you can catch IEMs from kissing someone funny, and won't have any truck with that funny stuff on his 'stage'....

The word "more" suggests you do some already.

The area for the neck heel base has now been cut out of the purpleheart so that the neck can seat - in a sort of normal way - to the Sapele back: Once the front edge has been carved to mirror the neck carve, the neck should drop down into the pocket and seat properly: It's probably going to be easier to do this before I glue the purpleheart to the back. Then the walnut will be a similar process. Dunno...but there's half a chance this might work! Can you see, by the way, how the purpleheart is already darkening - and this is just with air exposure (it's been in the cellar so there's been no light) It will end up a completely uniform colour.

I impersonated Sting once by taking off my shirt and acting like a self righteous preaching pr#@k. Does that count? 😂

Spare a thought for the poor little so-n-so that eagerly opened his tenth birthday present of... Cork sheets. ...

It's horrible looking.

Holy stinky poo - that is small! We demand pricing info now Russ!

Yes

I fitted a push-pull vintage/modern pot to my '78. But it is a very expansive, thick sound to it.

Not European, but another vote for Nobel. Also check out the Jule Monique! Si

Since you are quoting me, and quoting me incorrectly, let me clarify what I have said and how the WD-800 came about. I have said that it is not possible to design a higher powered Walkabout that sounds exactly the same as the original Walkabout because of the was the power amplifier works. The very benefit of it's dynamics is also the very thing that prevents scaling that design up to a higher powered yest otherwise identical Walkabout. On Talkbass, a number of dedicated Walkabout devotees created a thread about where they would wish the Walkabout might evolve to IF there was a follow-up model, knowing that it wouldn't (couldn't) be identical. Players listed their likes and also their dislikes of the existing amp and what they would like to see changed or added to maybe make it better for players gigging out. Some specific changes that were asked for included a (much) quieter fan, aux input, headphone output, more power, a sweepable high pass filter, no pull-switch type controls and smoother operation of all controls. Of course they wanted to keep the tone and feel as close as possible. The resulting amp is the result of a collaborative effort based on this player input which resulted in an amp that's quite close in tone and feel (but not identical) to the original WA but also includes enhancements that allow it to go to places that were simply impossible due to the significant limitations of the original model. If somebody really wants an original, there's nothing stopping them because they are readily available used. If the original Walkabout is loud enough for you, great, but you don't represent other player's needs anymore that they represent yours. As far as the power rating, due to the way the preamp gain and driver stages are designed there is some distortion generated in the preamp proportional to gain/level that is almost the same as in the original Walkabout. At higher levels, that distortion is very much a part of what made the Walkabout popular and the WD-800 follows this signal path quite closely. The power amp itself (though it can not be accessed since the aux in and fx return are pre-driver stage) is capable of about 700 watts (RMS) at 0.1% distortion and about 750 watts (RMS) at 1% THD, though this is not how the amp is being used. Why don't you reserve your comments until you get an opportunity to play one and spend some time exploring both its similarities and differences to the original WA?